The RIGBY Family of Dorchester

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JOHN RIGBY (d. 1647) m. Isabel Unknown (d. 1673)
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MEHITABLE RIGBY (bp. 1643 - 1680) m. Nathaniel Turner

First Generation

JOHN RIGBY (d. 1647) of Dorchester

Parents: Unknown

John Rigby died in 1647. [Ref] He married Isabel Unknown. [Ref] Isabel died on 22 Jun 1673 in Dorchester. [Ref] Isabel married second Edward Breck of Dorchester. [Ref] Edward Breck came from Ashton, Lancashire with Mr. Mather in 1635. [Ref] Isabel married third, as his second wife, Anthony Fisher [Ref] of Roxbury on 14 Nov 1663. [Ref] Anthony, the son of Anthony and Marie (Fiske) Fisher, was baptised on 23 Apr 1591 in Syleham and died on 18 Apr 1671 in Dorchester. [Ref] Anthony married first Alice Unknown about 1615. [Ref]

John Rigby probably came to Dorchester about 1637. [Ref] He is on a 1641 list of inhabitants of Dorchester. [Ref] He was a freeman on 18 May 1642. [Ref]

John's will was proved on 9 (10) 1647; inventory was taken on 16 (2) 1647. [Ref]

Children of John Rigby and Isabel Unknown:

  1. Samuel Rigby was baptised on 9 (6) 1640 in Dorchester. [Ref]
  2. Mehitable Rigby was baptised in 1643 in Dorchester. She married Nathaniel Turner.
  3. Abigail Rigby was born on 22 Jun 1645 in Dorchester. [Ref] She died on 1 Mar 1702/3 in Milton. [Ref] She married Thomas Holman. [Ref] Thomas, the son of John and Anne Holman, was born on 6 Aug 1641 in Dorchester and died on 4 Aug 1704 in Milton. [Ref] John was a cordwainer. [Ref]

Second Generation

MEHITABLE RIGBY (bp. 1643 - 1680)

Parents: John Rigby and Isabel Unknown.

Mehitable Rigby was baptised in 1643 in Dorchester. [Ref: probable daughter] She died on 22 Mar 1680 in Scituate, about two weeks after having her fifth child. [Ref] She married Nathaniel Turner on 29 Mar 1664 in Scituate. [Ref][Ref][Ref]

References

Editors, "Old Dorchester," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 5, 1851, 389-402.

Holman, Alfred Lyman, "John Holman of Dorchester, Mass., and his descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 72, 1918, 185-203.

Hyde, Myrtle Stevens, "The English Ancestry of New England Settlers Joshua and Anthony Fisher," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151, 1997, 171-191.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.

No author, History of the Town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Boston, E. Clapp, Jr., 1859.

Paige, Lucius, R., "List of Freemen, " New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 3, 1849, 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352.

Torry, Clarence A, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

Trask, William, "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2, 1853, 170.

W. H. W., "Early Marriages and Births in Scituate, Mass. Prior to 1700," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 18, 1864, 285-287.; 19, 1865, 219-221.